He played a pivotal role in the transformation of the institute from a local engineering college to a reputed university.

He is credited with increasing the pace of those reforms, as well as for constituting a "practice school" program of industry internship "far more ambitious than anything MIT had done, as a requirement for all faculty and students".

[2] To address the human resource development needs of the Indian industry and the financial challenge of running higher degree programs at BITS Pilani, in the year 1979, he pioneered the Work Integrated Learning Programs, which provided education and training to employees of Indian Industries.

Today, these programs have an enrollment of about 17,000 students throughout India and are responsible for earning two thirds of the revenue of the institute.

He was widely respected by the students who affectionately referred to him as Dynamic Diro (Director) [3] In 1989, he was invited by NIIT to be their education advisor.